Craig Idso

Craig Idso (also referred to as Craig D. Idso) is the Chairman of the Board, founder and former President of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, an Arizona-based global warming skeptics group that has been funded in part by ExxonMobil. Craig is the son of Sherwood B. Idso, the founder of the Center, and the brother of Keith E. Idso, the Center's Vice President.

Education
Craig Idso's degrees:
 * B.S. in Geography from Arizona State University
 * M.S. in Agronomy from the University of Nebraska - Lincoln
 * Ph.D. in Geography from Arizona State University (likely under ASU's global warming skeptic professor Robert C. Balling, Jr.; need to confirm)

Research and teaching
"Dr. Idso's current research focus is on carbon sequestration, but he remains actively involved in several other aspects of global and environmental change, including climatology and meteorology, along with their impacts on agriculture. Dr. Idso has published scientific articles on issues related to data quality, the growing season, the seasonal cycle of atmospheric CO2, world food supplies, coral reefs, and urban CO2 concentrations, the latter of which he investigated via a National Science Foundation grant as a faculty researcher in the Office of Climatology at Arizona State University.  In addition, he has lectured in Meteorology at Arizona State University, and in Physical Geography at Mesa and Chandler-Gilbert Community Colleges."

Fossil fuel industry employment
Idso was "Director of Environmental Science at Peabody Energy in St. Louis, Missouri".

Professional societies membership
Idso "is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Geophysical Union, American Meteorological Society, Arizona-Nevada Academy of Sciences, Association of American Geographers, Ecological Society of America, and The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi."

(Membership in such societies is often open to anyone who has an interest in the subject, is willing to pay dues, and perhaps has some relevant education.)

Related SourceWatch Articles

 * Global warming skeptics

Articles and Presentations by Idso

 * Craig Idso,Terry Dunleavy, ""Carbon Dioxide, Global Warming, and Coral Reefs: Prospects for the Future", Presentation to the Heartland Institute's International Conference on Climate Change (2009), March 9, 2009. (PowerPoint)